A pōwhiri unlike anything seen in Taranaki before marked the start of the biggest kapa haka competition in the world. The ...

Te Matatini officially got underway in New Plymouth on Monday with an emotional pōwhiri from the Taranaki hau kāinga, ...

The biennial Te Matatini festival has registered its highest number of teams on record, with 55 groups set to take the stage ...

The first day of Te Matatini o Te Kahui Maunga has set a high benchmark with thousands gathering under the shadow of Taranaki Maunga to watch the their favourite kapa haka groups take the stage.

she said it “acknowledges the special relationship between the Indigenous people of Taranaki and the Maunga.” The mountain’s legal personality Te Kāhui Tupua, while technically nonhuman ...

By Kristine Sabillo New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its ...

It’s one of the biggest events on the calendar for te ao Māori and Te Matatini is back this year, bringing the best of haka ...

Te Matatini 2025 will be held at the Bowl of Brooklands in Pukekura Park. Given the unprecedented number of competing teams ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Taranaki locals say Manaakitia te Maunga is the whakataukī for Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025. Taranaki locals say ...

Te Arawa rohe teams competing will be Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Hekenga-ā-rangi, Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao, Te ...